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' HAND STAMP.

.No. 249,863. Patented Nov. 22,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER D. \VESSON, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

HAND-STAM P.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,863, dated November 22, 1881.

Application filed June 17,1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER D. ESSON, of the city and county of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hand-Stamps for Postmarking; and I declare the following to be a specification thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Like letters indicate like parts.

Figures 1 and 2 are side elevations of my invention. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of my improved obliterating-block. Fig. 4 illustrates the rotary motion of the postmarker. Figs. 5, 6, 7, S, and 9 are detail views.

My invention is an improvement upon the invention by me made and secured by Letters Patent of the United States granted to me,

dated January 18, 1881, and numbered 236,742.

It consists in eccentrically pivoting the postmarker upon the transverse bar for the double purpose ofallowingthe stud to be swungaround to stand at an angle to said bar, thus enabling the rotation of said obliterating-block upon said stud, and also of inserting the typethrough the postmarker from top to bottom, when the postmarkeris thus rotated outwardly, and looking said type in position by the inward rotation of the postmarker to its former place.

The parts of my invention are as follows: Upon a transverse bar, A, the postmarker B is set, being attached thereto by the stud or screw D, which, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, is placed eccentrically, thus allowing the postmarker B to turn upon said stud or screw in such a manner that it swings clear of the bar to a considerable extent, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 4. When in the working position it is secured in place by the engagement of the lip O of the bar A with the slot 0 of the postmarker B. A stud, E, extends from the postmarker B at a right angle and parallel with the bar A. It is slotted, as shown at e, and slightly sprung, the better to hold the obliterating-block F. The obliterating-block F is cubical, and has perforations a a at right angles to receive the stud E. Suitable letters or devices are out upon the faces thereof to imprint such information concerning the mailing or cancellation of the stamp as the postal regulations may require, and by rotation of said block upon said stud either face may be brought into position to print, as may be desired, the postmarker and stud being swung out of position to enable such adjustment, or the block being withdrawn directly from the stud for such purpose, as preferred. The face of the block opposite to and parallel with such printing-face rests solidly against the bar A and furnishes a bearing, thus keeping the printing-surface rigidly in the same plane with the postmarkingsurface of the postmarker B. A handle, I, is affixed to the bar A, as shown. The postmarker B bears the name of the mailing post-oiiice permanently out upon its face. The date and hour of mailing areimprinted by movable cylindrical type--one for the year, another for the month, another for the day of the month, another for the hour, and another for the morning or afternoon mail. I prefer to use a numeral to indicate the month-as 6 for June, meaningthesixthmonth-antithussecuremore compactness of arrangement. The type for the number of the year I prefer to insert by a screw-thread, as shown in Fig. 8. This type T has to be moved but once for the year, and,

moreover, its position, as shown in the drawings, would not allow its insertion in the same manner as the other type, because of the location of the stud E; but the other types are cylindrical, as shown at T, Fig. 9, and are inserted through the postmarker B through the holes t. The types T have each a square head, S, which fits snugly in the transverse grooves G or H, respectively, made upon the inner end of the postmarker B, (see Fig. 5,) and are thus held from displacement. To insert or remove the type T the postmarker B must be swung to the positionindicated by dotted lines in Fig. 4. The types are then arranged, and when the postmarker is turned back again they are locked in position. In this manner I dispense with the set-screw by whichv the types are commonly held within a postmarker.

In the detail views, Fig. 6 is a section on the liney z of Fig. 7, and Fig. Sis a section on the line in a; of Fig. 5.

I do not herein broadly claim a rotatable obliterating-block combined with a rotating postmarker, which is already patented nor do I claim the combination, with ahandle and crossbar provided with a screw-pivot, of a postscribed, consisting of the handle I, bar A, the marker mounted on said pivot and having a eccentrically-pivoted postmarker B, perforatstud supporting a rotatable obliterating-block ed, as described, to receive the type, screw D, r 5 andaspring and stop-pin forsecuring the post- I stud E, obliterator F, and square-headed cy- 5 marker from rotation, such being the subject I lindrical type T, held as shown, all constructof a. separate application; but ed, arranged, and operating substantially as I claim as a novel and useful invention and and for the purpose described. desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1 1. The combination of the bar Aand the ec- WALTER WLSSON' 1o centrically-pivoted postlnurker B, having the Witnesses:

type T, substantially as described. F. H. SCHOTT, 2. The improved hand -stalnp herein de- A. R. BROWN. 

